Genesis 31:39

The wounded I have not brought to thee; what was deficient in number, from my hand hast thou required it. I have watched by day, and I have watched by night.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

In Context

38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy goats have not failed, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.

40(Thus) have I been; in the day the heat devoured me, and the frost came down upon me at night, and sleep passed away from my eyes.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:9If a man deliver to his neighbour an ass or an ox or a lamb or any cattle to keep, and it die, or be injured, or be carried away, no one seeing;

Exodus 22:12And if it be torn, and he bring witnesses that it was torn, he shall not repay.

Leviticus 22:8A carcase which hath been torn he may not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:37-43

36 And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. 38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I… Read the whole commentary →

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